Category5 Technology TV - Web Development

Web Development - Part 11

S04E34
May 17, 2011

Robbie fixes the footer of the web site and slices the HTML file out into PHP includes. A handful of viewer questions are answered and new chances to obtain Viewer Points are introduced.

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Robbie Ferguson and Christa Wells present in studio.
Now viewers may receive notifications of new episodes of Category5 Technology TV by email.
Robbie adds censorship to the Category5 broadcast.
Blip.TV has launched the new Category5 TV profile! blip.tv/category5
Viewer Points for submitted photos this week go out to Dan Murphy and pyrosrockthisworld.
Viewer Question: When I logon to Category5.TV, I get this error message about a page not existing. Any idea what is happening here?
Dumping your cache in Mozilla Firefox.
Viewer Question: On Linux, when I make a new folder with spaces in it, I can't browse to it using Terminal. Any ideas?
What Nautilus / Dolphin / Finder are.
Creating and navigating folders with spaces in their name using the Linux Terminal.
Viewer Question: I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to follow along with the web development series, and all is working well. But will I be able to complete this site even though I prefer ASP.net?
Viewer Question: Can you run ASP code on Apache? (See link in the Links section)
Viewer Question: Putting a space in front of your command when mounting your Pogoplug on Linux so it won't add your password to the Linux history.
Viewer Question: How can I connect from my home computer (Windows Vista) to my work computer (Windows 7) so I can work from home?
Christa Wells has submitted her Team Bio for us to add to the Category5 TV web site.
Top Stories from the Category5 TV Newsroom.
Feature: Web site development part 11. Fixing the footer and slicing the HTML file out into PHP includes (and why we'd want to do that).
Understanding and fixing last week's footer issue. It was due to relative positioning in the CSS.
Why we'd want to use PHP includes rather than flat HTML files for our web site.
Slicing your HTML file into PHP includes.
Using logical, human-understandable filenaming to help make future editing easier.
Modifying your menu once, but affecting all pages of your site.
Using search engine friendly filenames to improve your rankings in the search engines, and infuse your site with keywords.
Robbie thanks Music Pro Barrie for supporting us by providing a microphone while we work out what we're going to do to replace our failed microphones.
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Viewer Comment: Why did you just censor that Ubuntu logo with an Apple logo? Not cool man, not cool.
Viewer Question: What program do you use to upload your PHP files when working on web site development?
Viewer Comment: Tell us about Robbie's shirt.
Viewer Comment: I like GFTP because it supports SSH.
Viewer Question: Does Filezilla support SFTP, or only FTP?
Viewer Comment: I can't wait to see Robbie in Entropia Universe / Planet Calypso!
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